Samsung sm951 not booting

[Falconus]

I have installed the samsung SM951 SSD in to the m.s slot and it doesn't boot.It is recognized by the pc and the boot manager but it doesn't want to boot 🙁 .
I have installed on my father's Intel NUC with I3 and it works(my mobo has m.2 pcie x2 and the NUC has x4)

 

[bambiboom]

I have installed the samsung SM951 SSD in to the m.s slot and it doesn't boot.It is recognized by the pc and the boot manager but it doesn't want to boot 🙁 .
I have installed on my father's Intel NUC with I3 and it works(my mobo has m.2 pcie x2 and the NUC has x4)

Falconus,

I've never used an M.2 drive, but you might check the C" partition and make sure that it set to "Active" and that there is no other partition on the same drive that is also set as Active.

If you do not have disk utilities, you can check this and other settings with Partition Master Free.

Also, check in BIOS that the SM951 is shown in proper place in the boot sequence.

You might update the BIOS of your motherboard as the SM951 is quite recent technology.

Here's hoping the problem is some simple setting.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

 

[Falconus]

I have installed the samsung SM951 SSD in to the m.s slot and it doesn't boot.It is recognized by the pc and the boot manager but it doesn't want to boot 🙁 .
I have installed on my father's Intel NUC with I3 and it works(my mobo has m.2 pcie x2 and the NUC has x4)

Falconus,

I've never used an M.2 drive, but you might check the C" partition and make sure that it set to "Active" and that there is no other partition on the same drive that is also set as Active.

If you do not have disk utilities, you can check this and other settings with Partition Master Free.

Also, check in BIOS that the SM951 is shown in proper place in the boot sequence.

You might update the BIOS of your motherboard as the SM951 is quite recent technology.

Here's hoping the problem is some simple setting.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

I can't acces the drive at all,I was only able to install windows 7 on it when it was in my father NUC(which took about 10-15 min wtf the speed ),but when I placed it in my pc,it didn't even let me boot from the sshd that I had,and in the BIOS it recognized it, set to primary boot device and oll the settings were in place
If it helps i will leave my PC down here
ASRock Fatal1ty Z97x Killer
Intel I5-4690K 3.5 GHz Box
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4GB DDR5 256-bit
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA-III
HyperX Fury Red 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10
Corsair CS Series Modular CS750M
Corsair Obsidian 450D
CPU Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

 

[bambiboom]

I have installed the samsung SM951 SSD in to the m.s slot and it doesn't boot.It is recognized by the pc and the boot manager but it doesn't want to boot 🙁 .
I have installed on my father's Intel NUC with I3 and it works(my mobo has m.2 pcie x2 and the NUC has x4)

Falconus,

I've never used an M.2 drive, but you might check the C" partition and make sure that it set to "Active" and that there is no other partition on the same drive that is also set as Active.

If you do not have disk utilities, you can check this and other settings with Partition Master Free.

Also, check in BIOS that the SM951 is shown in proper place in the boot sequence.

You might update the BIOS of your motherboard as the SM951 is quite recent technology.

Here's hoping the problem is some simple setting.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

I can't acces the drive at all,I was only able to install windows 7 on it when it was in my father NUC(which took about 10-15 min wtf the speed ),but when I placed it in my pc,it didn't even let me boot from the sshd that I had,and in the BIOS it recognized it, set to primary boot device and oll the settings were in place
If it helps i will leave my PC down here
ASRock Fatal1ty Z97x Killer
Intel I5-4690K 3.5 GHz Box
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 4GB DDR5 256-bit
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA-III
HyperX Fury Red 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz CL10
Corsair CS Series Modular CS750M
Corsair Obsidian 450D
CPU Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

Falconus,

Just to dot the whatitz and cross the other things, are you certain that the drive is set as "Active" and not only as Primary?

It occurred to me that I may have had had a parallel experience recently. When I installed a PERC H310 PCIe RAID controller in my elderly Dell Precision T5500, I had to load a driver for the system to see the H310 as a boot device. It recognized it's presence. the model number, and other attribrutes- even the volume of the drives- Samsung 840 SSD and SWD RE4 HD- but I couldn't load Windows until that driver was in place and it had to be downloaded from Dell- generic Windows doesn't include it.

In the meantime I'll have a look at whatever SM951 documentation I can find.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

 

[Falconus]

Thanks a lot for trying to help me 😀 btw i forgot to add the model number,maybe it helps: MZHPV256HDGL-00000

 

[Outlander_04]

Disconnect your hard drive .

Try installing windows on the m.2 drive while it is in your computer

 

[ihameed46]

Falconus, In your original message you don't mention what motherboard you are using. Also, is the Intel NUC an UEFI system? If the NUC is and your system is not then that could be a reason for the boot problem. UEFI systems look for a GPT partition system on the boot loader. Otherwise the system just hangs. If Bambiboom's suggestion of checking boot priority checks out and the SM 951 has the priority then I think you are confronting a partition issue. Which operating system do you have on the SSD? Your model number suggests you have an AHCI interfaced SSD and not the NVME type so you should be okay with Windows 7 or Windows 8 which only come with AHCI drivers and not NVME drivers. Windows 10 and 8.1 have both. There is a method to switch a live windows instalation from MBR BIOS (legacy) to a UEFI one. If you tell me which motherboard you have and whether it supports UEFI natively then I may be able to guide you.

 

[Falconus]

Falconus, In your original message you don't mention what motherboard you are using. Also, is the Intel NUC an UEFI system? If the NUC is and your system is not then that could be a reason for the boot problem. UEFI systems look for a GPT partition system on the boot loader. Otherwise the system just hangs. If Bambiboom's suggestion of checking boot priority checks out and the SM 951 has the priority then I think you are confronting a partition issue. Which operating system do you have on the SSD? Your model number suggests you have an AHCI interfaced SSD and not the NVME type so you should be okay with Windows 7 or Windows 8 which only come with AHCI drivers and not NVME drivers. Windows 10 and 8.1 have both. There is a method to switch a live windows instalation from MBR BIOS (legacy) to a UEFI one. If you tell me which motherboard you have and whether it supports UEFI natively then I may be able to guide you.

My motherboad is ASRock Fatal1ty Z97x Killer with UEFI bios on both my motherboard and the nuc.I have windows 7 on the SSD,planing to install Windows 10,and yes,i have put the sm951 on top priority,but whenever i have the ssd installed,the PC would not boot into windows,not from the sshd or fromthe ssd.One question,my mobo has a pcie gen 2 x2 m.2 slot(it works on SATA III also),soo my ssd is pcie gen3 x4,would it work?I know the speed will be of the gen 2 x2,but could the slot be the problem,if so,a add-in card adapter to pcie gen x4 work?

 

[ihameed46]

Falconus, In your original message you don't mention what motherboard you are using. Also, is the Intel NUC an UEFI system? If the NUC is and your system is not then that could be a reason for the boot problem. UEFI systems look for a GPT partition system on the boot loader. Otherwise the system just hangs. If Bambiboom's suggestion of checking boot priority checks out and the SM 951 has the priority then I think you are confronting a partition issue. Which operating system do you have on the SSD? Your model number suggests you have an AHCI interfaced SSD and not the NVME type so you should be okay with Windows 7 or Windows 8 which only come with AHCI drivers and not NVME drivers. Windows 10 and 8.1 have both. There is a method to switch a live windows instalation from MBR BIOS (legacy) to a UEFI one. If you tell me which motherboard you have and whether it supports UEFI natively then I may be able to guide you.

My motherboad is ASRock Fatal1ty Z97x Killer with UEFI bios on both my motherboard and the nuc.I have windows 7 on the SSD,planing to install Windows 10,and yes,i have put the sm951 on top priority,but whenever i have the ssd installed,the PC would not boot into windows,not from the sshd or fromthe ssd.One question,my mobo has a pcie gen 2 x2 m.2 slot(it works on SATA III also),soo my ssd is pcie gen3 x4,would it work?I know the speed will be of the gen 2 x2,but could the slot be the problem,if so,a add-in card adapter to pcie gen x4 work?

Ok Falconus. There are a couple of issues here. Firstly, you are mentioning an SSHD drive. Is this a hybrid drive and is it the drive you had before the SM 951 came into your life? Is W7 installed and stable on it? Secondly, your SM 951 SSD is an ahci version. So it will work on a Sata connection ONLY. Your M.2 socket shares bandwith with a Sata 3 controller so while you think it is operating on a PCIE gen2.0x2 it is not actually using the pcie but the Sata 3 controller. Therefore, we can forget pcie altogether. That is for the NVME versio of the SM 951. Now back to your booting issue. I need to know if you have an installed and stable version of W7 on the SM 951. If the installation was done on the NUC that installation is locked to the NUC's motherboard serial number and will not work on your Asrock mobo. If you are trying to boot off of the SM 951 then your mobo needs to be in native UEFI mode, you need a W7 installation that is UEFI compatible (W7 came before UEFI specs were confirmed so a hack is generally needed for it to work on UEFI systems). So let mek now if you have such a set up. We go from there.

 

[Falconus]

Thank anyone for helping,I managed to finaly boot from it(when i installed windows 10 directly)